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  The next two presentations this morning have been from Rebecca Edwards at GE and David Harrington at Shell - both good case studies with similar themes.
The main topic for me is about too much communication - meaning that the goals for Internal Communication practitioners shouldn't be to communicate more.
Take these stats for example:

• 91% of US workers discard work information without fully reading it (and the other 9% are just lying!)
• 65% of Uk employees state their work is negatively affected by the amount of data they receive
• The total cost to US companies annually of interruptions caused by information overload is $650bn (not sure if this is a US or a UK billion)
• The total cost to UK companies of searching online for information someone saw but then cannot find is £120 per person every two w